Jessica Hausner’s 6^th fiction feature is a Palme d’or competition entry at the 76^th Cannes festival (May 16 to 27). CLUB ZERO, starring Mia Wasikowska and Sidse Babett Knudsen, produced by Vienna-based coop99 filmproduktion, is celebrating its world premiere on Monday, May 22.

This is Jessica Hausner's  6^th artistic appearance in Cannes after LITTLE JOE (2019, Best Actress Emily Beecham), AMOUR FOU (2014), HOTEL (2004), LOVELY RITA (2001) and her short INTER-VIEW (1999).

In her class Miss Novak warns her students against eating without awareness. Every morsel on a fork should be examined closely, every bite considered carefully. At some point, her students reach the stage where they can regard intake of food as a dispensable ballast on their journey to a better world. In CLUB ZERO, Jessica Hausner observes how power creeps up silently, and how faith quietly eats away at reason.
 

Supremely audacious and disturbing
Variety
 
A real head-turner of a film
Screen International
 
a film with a cutting humor and a cruelty without name
Le Monde

2022 gehörte er zum Club der aufstrebenden Produzent:innen, die European Film Promotion einmal jährlich unter dem Label Producers on the Move miteinander vernetzt, 2023 war er als Teil des Teams von Jessica Hausners CLUB ZERO erneut in Cannes; diesmal, um den Film ins Rennen um die Goldene Palme zu begleiten. Johannes Schubert hat für coop99 filmproduktion mit CLUB ZERO seinen ersten langen Spielfilm als Produzent mitverantwortet und hat auch mit seiner eigenen Produktionsfirma Schubert ambitionierte Pläne.

Seldom does a film score have such a distinctive character as that of Jessica Hausner's CLUB ZERO. Sometimes it adopts a contrasting position to the European setting of the film, while at others it is self-confidently in the foreground of the action. It is intriguing, touching and surprising. A conversation with Markus Binder, winner of the 2023 European Film Award in the European Original Score category for the film music for CLUB ZERO.

CLUB ZERO wins the European Excellence Award in the category  European Original Score for the film music composed by Markus Binder.

The jury stated: The original score of CLUB ZERO is an essential and seamlessly integrated part of the film. The score effectively conveys the character of the teacher, magnetically pulling viewers into the narrative.